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Thanks Ietsuna! much appreciated!

Player name: PDK
Character name: Roomba
PFS#: 4456-23
Faction: Silver Crusade
Day Job: None

I think it's too late for that. Both Morgan and I have taken the Chronicles offer. Next time perhaps let the group know you won't be able to post. Take care.

Thanks for sharing you're not playing anymore. Better late than never they say.

Thanks GM Ietsuna; can't win 'em all hey?

I think we lost Morgan and Barlespin. New players (again) or chronicles?

Eskanii lays into the creature as it rises!

RAGE!

+1 silversheen falchion, power attack, two-handed, furious focus: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23
magical slashing silver damage: 2d4 + 14 ⇒ (4, 4) + 14 = 22

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AoO as it was rising from prone, if allowed: 1d20 + 11 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 11 + 4 = 18
magical slashing silver damage: 2d4 + 14 ⇒ (2, 4) + 14 = 20

"Doubt is what kills most people... of regret and old age!"

Eskanii charges in.

Yeah; 1, 2, 3 go! charging in!

"Barlespin! your particular set of skills is required here please!"

To the west, the wall is partially crushed and melted, leaving a five-foot-wide, two-foot-tall gap that opens into another chamber beyond.

Sorry Ietsuna: I missed the info above when I first read it... can Eskanii go explore there instead of attacking undead? thanks!

Eskanii does not touch this weird stuff and backs away, returning to the party to report her findings. "Ok, I think we should scrap the undead in the north room. I found nothing in the other rooms except two well-preserved corpses in metal and glass coffins to the south. How about you three put out your attacks first, then I'll step in between to lay into them and give you all time to reload?"

Eskanii notes the strange creatures in the pods and backtracks slowly to the hallway to explore the last room to the east, keeping to the shadows and remaining quiet.

If the poltergeist have not seen us, Eskanii will sneak to the south room with the open pods first to make a search there...

Sneaking to the edge of the two doors she peeks into the two rooms.

Eskanii stabs the screen!

She then quietly opens the doors and moves into the passage beyond...

See stealth 16 and perception 27 rolls above.

Then:

"This Hellion god, Ezir... you familiar? what should we expect?"

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Now:

Eskanii motions for silence and slips through the door, falchion out.

Stealth: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 16
Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27

Ready for those sanctioned parts Ietsuna! I don't mind doing the boss battle for each book even... campaign mode is a wonderful thing like this: you can run any part of the game any way you want... you can even skip the sanctioned parts if you so chose. (Sanctioned parts only matter if you're running the module with actual PFS PCs in module mode)

Hey everyone. I haven't heard from Ietsuna and to be honest I'd rather not assume the GMing of his game unless he'd stay with us as a PC. So until I hear back from him, let's put this game in the freeze bin. Take care out there and be safe.

I haven't heard from him yet, so I'll give him a few days. If I don't hear back, would you guys be ok if I use Eskanii as an NPC instead of having him play her?

I asked GM Ietsuna if he's interested to do a GM swap for the rest of this book (he'd play my PC, and I'd run the rest of Book 2).

However I want to know if you guys would be ok with this first. Keep in mind that this adventure is heavy on dungeons, which means slow grind in PbP, so if I run this I would be subject to skipping or fast forwarding several parts, based on my determination of whether you'd be able to cakewalk through some of these encounters.

Let me know if you would be ok with this.

Cheers,

Eskanii/GM PDK

Take it from me: I've suffered from severe GM burnout before. NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE WHATSOEVER!

The remedy: don't force yourself to follow the script to the letter. The players will be FINE with whatever you feel like offering.

If you want to skip to the boss, do so. If you want to skip an entire Part of an AP book or even an entire AP book, do so. This is 'campaign mode' and a lot of people forget this is not 'PFS Module mode'. Campaign mode allows a GM to run the game any way they see fit with any home rule or style they want to.

A GM is sometimes his own worst critic. Most players are happy to just roll dice and don't expect an adventure to be followed like it's some kind of holy text.

So, is this a trap? are they nice? do they really wanna talk? what's going on?

"Neat."

Eskanii makes conversation with the nearest ratfolk, "How long has Redtooth been the leader here? how big is your gang? Ratfolk only or do you have other member races as well?"

Squeezing and following!

I think Morgan only speaks Common, and I don't see Giant on Barlespin's language list...

"Yes. Yes we will. I like ratfolk!"

Leveled up.

Feat: Combat Reflexes, to enhance that nice Enlarge Person spell Ezir has been casting on me! :)

Disruptor: At 5th level, for any foes in a Numerian liberator’s threatened area, the DC to cast spells defensively increases by 1. The DC increases by 1 again for every 5 levels thereafter (to a maximum increase of 4 at 20th level). If the barbarian gains the disruptive rage power, the two abilities stack. This ability replaces improved uncanny dodge.

PS: I don't need the +1 studded leather as my character actually had switched to breastplate a while ago before we started book 2. Let me know if I can get my sword enchanted.

"Agreed! let's start with their immediate neighbour here. Let's go!"

i.e. put the rank somewhere and then put 2 ranks in linguistics next level! ;)

"Hmm... are you planning to join with the Lords of Rust or go against them? I think we'd like to take a look where that light came down and talk to some people near it. What would you suggest the best way to go about it?"

Eskanii grabs the studded leather +1 for frontline reasons... current Erutaki coat has same AC bonus but it's slowing me down from speed 40 to 30...

Eskanii nods to Sevroth. "We did something for you, now we need a favor before we proceed to eliminate your next target. Know anything about someone here meddling with the city of Torch's big magic light in the sky? or someone here who would know about that? AND PLEASE DON'T TELL US BIRDFOOD! a friend of a friend might be interested in buying information from us on that... if you do know something, I'd be inclined to kill even more people for you than usual. Or at least kill them harder. HAHAHAHAA!"

If Morgan take 20s, we are at: 29 + 6 = 35 for Perception

Eskanii grabs Birdfood and puts him on her shoulder, answering Ezir with her giantess voice, "Let's bring him to the gate lady now, without his gear, of course! Barlespin, let's help Morgan look around for shinies before we go! MORGAN! where would they keep their stash most likely?"

Perception aid to Morgan: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18 I had to roll it 'cause you can't take 10 or 20 to assist, but Morgan can sure take 20 here and use our aids...

I went two-handed while raging (with no shield) - my tag AC was wrong and both hits landed on Eskanii last round as she was AC 18.

Eskanii grunts in surprise as the bird and its master manage to bleed her upon awakening! lost in her rage, she sees a bird departing from the corner of her eye and takes a quick sharp swipe at it... she can't feel the pain from her injuries just yet, and thus she decides to continue her assault on Birdfood. Somehow, she feels much, much larger by now...

AoO on bird: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12
silver slashing dmg: 2d4 + 13 ⇒ (3, 2) + 13 = 18

Delaying until Ezir's turn to get Enlarge Person, then...

silversheen falchion power attack two-handed furious focus on Birdfood, Enlarge, Large: 1d20 + 10 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (8) + 10 + 1 - 1 = 18
silver slashing dmg, Enlarge: 2d6 + 13 + 2 ⇒ (6, 6) + 13 + 2 = 27

AC 16 with enlarge

Let's go with Birdfood.

Eskanii tries to reach Birdfood and cut him down in his sleep!

Stealth: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15

silversheen falchion power attack two-handed furious focus: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30 Auto hit if sleeping; but hey... a 20 works too! :P

silver slashing dmg: 2d4 + 13 ⇒ (3, 2) + 13 = 18

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Confirm Crit if Birdfood not sleeping: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19 auto crit if he was sleeping

additional dmg if Birdfood was sleeping via coup de grace OR if confirm crit is successful: 2d4 + 13 ⇒ (2, 2) + 13 = 17

If he was sleeping, Fort Save DC 45 to survive the coup de grace

Let's wait for the GM to hear what you saw; I think we should be off to the races after that. @GM: do you still need something from us before proceeding?

"You're the scout: go!" says Eskanii to Barlespin, readying her weapons and shield.

"Ok let's go!!!!!"

Yeah... sounds like you need to prep the fight at the gate... sigh... Eskanii loved her rough looks... :P I wouldn't hate you if you'd give us a strong hint that it's a bad idea, if that's the case... lol

I wanted to kill Birdfood as the Smilers attacked the crusaders. We also first made an agreement with the lady at the gate, so that was my preference personally; however, in-character, Eskanii is dumb and will trust Ezir's logic over hers.

"Yes, that would be fun!"

Create Pit: check with the GM on this one. In my experience it often just slows down the fight, as it puts some foes out of melee reach (but it 'can' really save a party's behind when the boss is too tough, so... yeah... ask the GM about using it here... lol)

"Ok. Let's do this."

"Very interesting info, Ezir and Barlespin! since the Smilers attacked the crusaders' camp, I'm inclined to shiv Birdfood tonight, if you're all with me on this?"

"I'll stay here with Morgan and we'll be your alibi. Should be easy enough to make a frog-shaped lump in that bed here... there... how does that look? Morgan: let's play cards quietly while our two 'friends' here 'sleep'!"

Throughout the night Eskanii waits for a time where no orcs is in the room and discretely addresses the group. "Look, I'm here to smash whoever you tell me to smash. Ezir and Barlespin: your contributions to our group is intelligence gathering and making sure we won't strike against the wrong group. Go out shopping and try to quietly gather some info on all these players. Maybe use disguises or magic or something... before the night is out, if we need to take down these guys here, we need to know! Which group do we need to infiltrate to figure out who's behind Torch's problem? find the answer to that, and then my sword will drop without hesitation!"

Eskanii pockets the silverdisks and the hand crossbow (+bolts!).

"Ok, deal. What do you want us to do exactly?" asks Eskanii, drawing her sword and polishing it with a cloth.

Nope. Haven't heard from him. Have you tried PMing yet?

Messaging all games: I will be unable to post until Wed pm. Please bot me as needed. Thx!